Welcome! : Social and psychological predictors of volunteer socializers in online communities

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 827-837

  Hsieh, Gary ^a   Hou, Youyang ^a   Chen, Ian ^a   Truong, Khai N ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Online communities; Reddit; Volunteer socialization

Indexed keywords

DESIGN IMPLICATIONS; GENERALIZED RECIPROCITY; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; QUADRATIC EFFECT; REDDIT; SOCIAL IDENTITY; VOLUNTEER SOCIALIZATION;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; WEBSITES;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84874884332     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2441776.2441870     Document Type: Conference Paper

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